Googlielmo's blog

In my IT career I have read a lot of technical books, most part of them really useful, just few useless. The following five are the most important because they pointed me to the right direction in my professional career and shaped my mind more than others. Thinking in Java (2nd edition) by Bruce Eckel , Prentice-Hall. Read in 2000 . This book was the best approach for a former C developer like me to understand the object oriented principles while learning a real (and amazing and powerful) OO programming language. Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB by Rod Johnson , Wrox. Read in 2006 . During the 2/3 years before reading this book I was deeply sure that the world of Java was too beautiful to end with EJBs. This book gave me the final confirmation about that and helped me to quickly understand the benefits of the Spring framework. Wouldn't it have been otherwise from the Spring creator. Jenkins - The definite guide by John Ferguson Smart , Creative Commons Edition